Workshops For 2025/2026

LINC-NYSTC Students with Disabilities Certification Extension Grades 10-12
Audience: To be eligible for this course series you must hold a SWD grades 5-9 certification and have taught a minimum of 3 years at the 8th or 9th grade level.
Dates: 10/13/2025 to 11/14/2025

In June 2018, the NYS Regents approved a new certification extension pathway for educators interested in extending their existing certification to address the growing shortage of special education teachers in NYS. This 45-hour course will help teachers analyze the NYS Next Generation Standards focusing on Reading, Writing, and Math at the 10th - 12th-grade level and develop lesson plans that use evidence-based and developmentally appropriate instructional practices to support student achievement. Teachers will apply their knowledge of this age group, current learning research, and technology to demonstrate facility in designing engaging lessons and developing a classroom culture that supports social, emotional, cognitive, and linguistic growth for all students.

The content of this course will be delivered through synchronous meetings online and assignments in Google Classroom (a personal Google account is required to access course materials). Fulfills NYS requirements for SWD Grades 10-12 certification extension.

Please note: Asynchronous work dates listed below are simply placeholders for the work of the course. You may complete asynchronous work during hours that work best for you. District approval is needed for in-service credit. (45 CTLE hours)

LINC-Asynchronous Course - What We Say and How We Say It Matter: Teacher Talk That Improves Student Learning and Behavior

Dates: 10/13/2025 to 11/17/2025

In this online course, you'll explore key ideas, learn practical strategies, and gain helpful resources to help you bring your language habits and patterns more in line with your best intentions and positive goals for students.

• Understand how the language we use with students is so crucial to their academic and emotional engagement in school.

• Consider language habits and patterns in three main areas: culture & climate, positive behavior, and academic engagement.

• Explore many "instead of this--try this" examples to help you consider language shifts you might try.

• Learn a process for changing language habits and set a goal for personal growth.

• Gain access to a wide array of supportive resources including articles, videos, podcasts, and more.  

You will have access to this course for a year, so you can go back in over and over again. (6 CTLE hours)

LINC-NYSTC Students with Disabilities Certification Extension Grades 5-8

Audience: Eligible participants must have SWD 1-6 or SWD 7-12 certification and at least 3 years of teaching experience to be eligible for the certification extension.
Dates: 10/14/2025 to 1/31/2026

This course is a New York State Education Department approved course and provides the hours and course content required for certification extension for SWD grades 5-8.

Eligible participants must have SWD 1-6 or SWD 7-12 certification and at least 3 years of teaching experience to be eligible for the certification extension.  This 45 hour course requires synchronous and asynchronous work. The course includes 3 sections, Knowledge of Students, Instructional Strategies, and Professional Practices.  Please note: Asynchronous work dates listed below are simply placeholders for the work of the course. You may complete asynchronous work during hours that work best for you. (45 CTLE hours)

LINC-Asynchronous Course -Rekindle Your Professional Fire: Powerful Habits for Becoming a More Well-Balanced Teacher
Dates: 11/5/2025 to 11/26/2025w

It's not exactly a news flash to say that it's a hard time to be a teacher. In this practical and inspiring asynchronous course, you'll learn concrete strategies to help you get into powerful habits so you can become a more well-balanced and energized educator.  You will have access to this course for a year, so you can go back in over and over again. (6 CTLE hours)

LINC-Mike Anderson Webinar for Teacher Center Directors-What We Say and How We Say It Matter

Audience:  Teacher Center Directors and/or Designee
Dates: 11/17/2025

The way teachers talk with students has a profound impact on how kids feel about school, for better or worse. The way teacher leaders talk with teachers can have the same kind of impact. In this active and interactive webinar, Mike Anderson, author of What We Say and How We Say It Matter: Teacher Talk That Improves Student Learning and Behavior, will share a few key ideas about effective language in schools:

1. All educators have positive goals and intentions when it comes to their work with students and colleagues.

2. When it comes to the way we talk with others in schools, we have to rely on habits and patterns.

3. We all have at least a few habits and patterns that don't align with our best intentions.

We will explore these ideas both through the lens of language teachers can use with their students and through the language that directors/leaders can use with their colleagues. Participants will gain access to an online binder of resources to support further learning and implementation.  (1 CTLE hour)

LINC-Mike Anderson Webinar for Teacher Center Directors-Rekindle Your Teachers' Professional Fires
Audience:  Teacher Center Directors and/or Designee
When:  Dates: 2/12/2026

Teachers have key fundamental psychological needs (autonomy, competence, purpose, belonging, curiosity, and fun). When we as school leaders can help meet those needs, teachers can be fired up and passionate educators. In this session will explore practical strategies for doing just that!

Based on my newest ASCD book, participants will gain a deeper and more complete understanding of human motivation--an understanding that will help them create conditions where teachers' self-motivation can thrive. Participants will learn about 6 key intrinsic motivators (autonomy, competence, purpose, belonging, curiosity, and fun) and how to leverage these in their work with teachers. We'll explore practical strategies that can be used throughout the daily work of running a school.

The session will be active and interactive. I will give some direct presentations and participants will share and talk together through chats and breakout rooms. Participants will gain access to an online binder of resources to support further learning and implementation. (1 CTLE hour)